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The Faking of
Hitler's "Last
Testament"

Seeking to disprove David
Irving's assertion (1977) that there is no archival
evidence that Hitler even knew of the Final Solution of
the Jewish Problem, let alone ordered the liquidation of
millions of Jews, some critics pointed to a passage in
the book edited by Hugh Trevor Roper, Hitler's
Last Testament, allegedly based on a typescript record of
Hitler's informal mealtime remarks in 1945, analagous to
the famous Hitler's Table Talk . . .

.
. . but there is a problem. The document, first published
in French in 1959, and in English in 1961 as Hitler's
Last Testament, or Hitlers politisches Testament,
right, with an Introduction by Professor Hugh
Trevor-Roper,is a fake.

History:Its owner, Swiss lawyer-activist
François Genoud, now dead, first showed it
to David Irving at a meeting at the Hotel d'Angleterre in
Geneva (witnessed also by Dr Elke Fröhlich of
the Institut für Zeitgeschichte) in 1971. At that
time it was about fifty pages of typescript, typed on a
small-face non-German typewriter on American-size legal
paper.

What was very surprising was that Genoud was willing
to let German editor Professor Eduard Baumgarten
work only from a French text, which he insisted
must be retranslated into German.

David Irving continued to press Genoud, expressing to
him strong doubts (after discussions with Hitler's
private staff, especially Konteradmiral Karl-Jesco von
Puttkamer, Hitler's naval adjutant to the very end,
who stated that he had never seen Hitler's secretary
Martin Bormann taking down such notes in
1945).

There was a further difficulty. Mr Irving had a
transcript of the 1945 diary, now in Moscow, of Bormann
(left); he also had a facsimile of the register of all
the guests at Hitler's February 1945 meals, kept by
Hitler's manservant Heinz Linge. These
unquestionably genuine documents showed that Bormann was
not present at several of the meals during which
the "testament" showed he had apparently taken notes;
sometimes he was not even in Berlin.

This is a passage of the typescript
of Hitlers Politisches Testament, as published by
Albrecht Knaus Verlag, Munich, despite warnings from Mr
Irving: the typescript, given to David Irving by Genoud, is
largely written by Genoud himself (handwriting). David
Irving has deposited this typescript with the Institut
für Zeitgeschichte, Munich (Sammlung Irving)

In 1979, Genoud phoned Mr Irving at his Paris
hotel, and said: "I have a gift for you." He handed him a
package. It contained a copy of the complete typescript
of the Testament. The package gift from Genoud raised a
new problem. Every page was heavily amended and expanded
in somebody's hand-writing. Mr Irving, astonished, asked
Genoud whose was the writing. Genoud admitted it was
his own. Later still, he admitted in conversation
with Mr Irving that the entire typescript was his own
confection, saying: "But it is just what Hitler would
have said, isn't it?"

This is François Genoud's
handwriting, a 1977 letter transmitting to David Irving
exclusively several pages of the original Bormann Vermerke
(genuine notes on Hitler's Table Talk) for the German
edition of Hitler's
War.

Remarkable
fact:

The Historians,
Journalists and "Scholars" who have recklessly used this
document as a "source" are the same people who
accuse British
writer David
Irving of
manipulating evidence and facts (and call for his
imprisonment!).